It's tough to narrow our favorite music down to even just a few, but do it, name your one and only favorite song.

Just imagine a gun pointing at your head.

I look at it like this, so many songs we like are about what we think of when it plays, or the setting in which it reminds us of or puts us in, a person or a thing, etc...

So I look at it as what one song do I love to hear no matter the setting or company I am with, so much so that when I hear it on the radio, even though I have the CD in the car I listen to it anyway and turn it up.

Mine: Over the Hills and Far Away.

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"

Swerb wrote:If I could go back in time and see ANY band EVER, it would be to go back and time and see The Doors in their hayday.

I'm sorry, ignoring the obvious musical problems or the Doors having no rhythm section, seeing vintage Replacements with Bob Stinson in a dress trumps anything a drunken, rambling Morrison could possibly have coughed up along with his liver.

Swerb wrote:If I could go back in time and see ANY band EVER, it would be to go back and time and see The Doors in their hayday.

I'm sorry, ignoring the obvious musical problems or the Doors having no rhythm section, seeing vintage Replacements with Bob Stinson in a dress trumps anything a drunken, rambling Morrison could possibly have coughed up along with his liver.

You're tempting me to go to my final card in trying to lure gnati back to the forums:

The Replacements smak

And on the Doors, who cares? You're not going to remember anything about the show anyway.

Jungleland is amazing, though I like Incident on 57th Street the best of his longform songs. Rosalita is equally good, though it doesn't have the beauty of the others.

For the man who wants to keep on fighting, Badlands would be up there.

Pirate Looks At Forty - Buffett

I've come to really despise most Buffett, but this is the one track I still love. My friend that I road with in high school played Buffett every day for two years. I still haven't recovered my liking of Jimmy Buffett.

Jumpin Jack Flash - Stones

Great song, though Street Fighting Man might be more rousing. The riff is awesome, even if it is just an inversion of the riff from Satisfaction.

Here's another Stones tune to consider, Sympathy for the Devil, an ABSOLUTELY, AMAZING, COOL AS HELL SONG done and heard live. You're right though, way back when they were really rockin out, Jumpin' Jack Flash was it, along with Satisfaction, hell just about any of their songs from back in the early days is plain and simple kick ass rock 'n roll.

I've come to not listen to Springsteen much anymore, but I do love Thunder Road and Jungleland. Nothing more embarrassing than my wife getting home from work early, and seeing a killed 12-pack and me with my broom guitar and hairbrush mic busting out Jungleland. The worst thing was she stood there and watched me for awhile, and I still get shit about it 15 years later. I also like Black by Pearl Jam, but I have to admit to love hearing Aaron Lewis (Staind) sing it live. That guy really pours himself into a song if you ask me. For some reason I love Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam. Apparently Eddie Vedder grew up and went to HS here in Encinitas where I live, and everyone says he's a pretty regular guy, but he seems out there to me.

In a nice quiet room when I can really turn it up loud (i.e. the whiny wife is gone), I really love:

Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin or the Black Crowes/Jimmy Page version.
I need volume though to feel that bass.

It's pretty tough to think of just one Zep song, and maybe because my 10 year old is playing that song right now it's on my brain (when I get him off Guitar Hero).

A strange song on the mellow side of things I have always loved (I'm more of a hard rock/zep floyd guy) was:
The Sundays - Here's where the story ends. That chics voice used to just draw me in.

The opening theme to "Star Wars" played while we were introduced at our reception. A classic moment I will never forget.

Gee how original.

:poke

I wanted Monday Night Football, but my friend, who picked me for his best man, used it.

Not a big Stones fan but my favorite Stones song is Can't You Hear Me Knockin, funny thing about it is EVERY TIME I hear that song I think about Joe Pesci standing our front of his pawn shop in Vegas with his boys in Casino, one of those perfect fits for a movie scene and a song IMO.

Some of my other favorites I can never tire of, L.A Woman, Won't Get Fooled Again, Walk (by Pantera), Killing in the Name Of, Going the Distance (Bill Conti, Rocky) and some classical stuff that 99% of you probably wouldn't know.

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"

I can see your point about the Star Wars score eye, but music is often what makes a movie or at least a big part of it.

The best way I can say it, (I heard this from a musician from our gen) just imagine if instead of Gonna Fly Now as the theme to Rocky, and the song played during his training montages, they used The Final Countdown by Europe?

Ugh. Changes everything about how we look at the movie.

Music in movies is often genius and IMO John Williams nailed it in Star Wars.

Criminals in this town used to believe in things...honor, respect."I heard your dog is sick, so bought you this shovel"